Job 18:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Job 18:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Job 15:23-24
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. …
1 Samuel 2:36
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

Topics

Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God’s wrath (Job 18:11, 12): Terror s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. The Hebrew is brief and bold, “his strength is hungry.” destruction--that is, a great calamity (Pr 1:27). ready at his side--close at hand to destroy him (Pr 19:29).